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Series
Criterion collection volume 1054
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
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A zeitgeist-defining sensation that distilled a global reckoning over class inequality into a tour de force of pop-cinema subversion, this is Bong Joon Ho's genre-scrambling black-comic thriller. Two families in Seoul, one barely scraping by in a dank semi-basement in a low-lying neighborhood, the other living in luxury in a modern architectural marvel overlooking the city, find themselves on a collision course that will lay bare the dark contradictions...
4) Burning
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Korean
Description
A South Korean man bumps into a former, but forgotten childhood classmate one day and he hits it off with the young woman. An immediate romantic tryst follows, but the young woman plans to leave for Africa in a few days. She asks her rediscovered friend to feed her cat while she is away. He does so and is eager for his new romantic interest to return. The situation quickly becomes complicated, however, when she returns from Africa with a mystery man...
5) Minari
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Korean
Description
A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Korean
Description
Set in 19th century Korea, this version also tells the tale of treachery, lust and sacrifice. Elegant, courtly and sexually voracious young Lord Jo-won's public life of idle nobility masks a not-so-private life of unending sexual conquest. Challenged by his equally debauched cousin Lady Cho to seduce a teenaged virgin threatens Cho's household kingdom. Jo-won accepts on condition that Cho surrender herself to him if he succeeds. But the real target...
7) Si =: Poetry
Publisher
Distributed by Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Korean
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Description
Mija is a beautiful woman in her sixties who moves gracefully through life, contemplating a trivial daily routine that is ill-suited to her refined persona. On a whim, Mija enrolls in a poetry class at the local cultural center and begins a personal quest to find the perfect words to describe her feelings. However, she's appreciate the wonders of the natural world, but a school girl's suicide initiates a chain of tragic events that will change her...
9) Mother
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Language
Korean
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Description
A mother desperately tries to overturn her son's murder conviction, find the killer who set him up, and have him released from prison. Includes featurette and deleted scenes.
10) Pieta
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Korean
Description
Hired by moneylenders, a man lives as a loan shark brutally threatening people for paybacks. This man, without any family therefore with nothing to lose, continues his merciless way of life regardless of all the pain he has caused to a countless number of people. One day, a woman appears in front of him claiming to be his mother. He coldly rejects her at first, but gradually accepts her in his life. He decides to quit his cruel job and to live a decent...
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
Description
Jung-seok, a soldier who previously escaped the diseased wasteland, relives the horror when assigned to a covert operation with two simple objectives: retrieve and survive. When his team unexpectedly stumbles upon survivors, their lives will depend on whether the best, or worst, of human nature prevails in the direst of circumstances.
12) The handmaiden
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Korean
Description
A Korean woman who is hired as handmaiden to a young Japanese lady is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of her large inheritance.
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
Description
Pushed to a critical point in the Korean War, the South Korean Army and US Allies are desperate to take back the strategic location of Incheon. The only unit available is a small, inexperienced battalion of student soldiers with barely two weeks of boot camp training. Based on a true story of forgotten heroes of the Korean War, can the student soldiers successfully carry out their mission and turn the tide of the war?
14) The concubine
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Korean
Description
Set during the early Joseon Dynasty in Korea, Hwa-Yeon, a minister's daughter, and Kwon-Yoo, a commoner are deeply in love, but to escape a life of poverty, Hwa-Yeon is forced to offer herself as one of the king's concubines. Once inside the royal palace, two men are immediately captivated by her. The Grand Prince Seong-won, a powerful, lust-filled megalomaniac, and Kwon-Yoo, who has everything to lose if his desire for Hwa-Yeon is exposed.
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